NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The Yale men's tennis team wrapped up its home schedule with a hard-fought 4-3 victory over Cornell.
Senior
Theo Dean, playing his final home matches, went out a winner in both singles and doubles. He teamed with
Aidan Reilly to post a 6-4 win in the No. 1 doubles position and won a super tiebreaker to capture his singles match at No. 3. Dean, the 2022 Ivy League Rookie of the Year and a two-time first team All-Ivy selection, was honored following the match.
The Big Red won the doubles point. Other singles winners for the Bulldogs were
Eric Li and
Jim Ji.
Yale (11-11, 2-4 Ivy) wraps up the season at Brown next Saturday.
Cornell 4, Yale 3:
Doubles
1.
Theo Dean/
Aidan Reilly (Yale) def. Adit Sinha/Nathan Mao 6-4
2. Petar Teodorovic/Eric Verdes (Corn.) def.
Vignesh Gogineni/
Eric Li 7-5
3. Radu Papoe/Samuel Paquette (Corn.) def.
Jim Ji/
Roee Benya (Yale) 6-2
Singles
1. Radue Papoe (Corn.) def.
Vignesh Gogineni (Yale) 6-2, 6-2
2.
Theo Dean (Yale) def. Sinha Adit (Corn.) 6-7, 6-3 (1-0)
3.
Eric Li (Yale) def. Petar Teodorovic (Corn.) 6-0, 6-3
4.
Jim Ji (Yale) def. Bradley Paliska (Corn.) 7-6, 6-4
5. Nathan Mao (Corn.) def.
Aidan Reilly (Yale) 6-3, 6-3
6. Felipe Pinzon (Corn.) def.
Luke Neal (Yale) 7-6, 6-3
